Police from Harare's law and order section are at the Harare home of MDC
leader Morgan Tsvangirai searching for weapons of war. They say the MDC leader
is keeping an arsenal of weapons, including grenades and tear-smoke/gas
canisters in his house. They are being led by Garnett Sikovha, whose rank I have
yet to establish.

The allegation, they say, stems from the attack on
Tsvangirai's meeting with the MDC provincial council in Mvurwi, Mashonaland
Central -- 100 km north east of Harare, last month. Tsvangirai and the MDC,
victims of the attack, are now accused of having caused the trouble and of
firing teargas in the mellee that resulted from the disruption of the
meeting.

The attack, carried out by Zanu PF functionaries in six
vehicles, took place at the end of a police approved meeting in the farming town
of Mvurwi. More details later.

The Police search for arms of war, teargas stocks and grenades at the home
of Morgan Tsvangirai ended two minutes ago. Nothing was found.

It took the officers slightly over 45 minutes to go through the entire
four-bedroomed home of Mr Tsvangirai in the Harare suburb of Strathaven. Also
searched was Mr Tsvangirai's two-roomed office, his staff quarters and other
outbuildings.

The officers did not produce a search warrant, if ever they had one. Two
weeks ago, four other officers, led by one Dhowa who once served as part of the
UN peacekeeping force in Kosovo ad had to be withdrawn after rights groups
protested, visited Mr Tsvangirai at his home saying they were investigating the
Mvurwi incident. They questioned him and later, his security guards, on the
origins of the teargas cannisters which were thrown at MDC supporters at the
Mvurwi meeting. One of the guards was taken to Harare Police Station on that
day. His home in Rugare, Harare was later searched and nothing was found.

Mr Tsvangirai's staff do not carry any firearms, grenades or teargas
cannisters. On the day in question, Mr Tsvangirai's convoy was thoroughly
searched at a police checkpoint outside Mvurwi before he entered the town.

Mr Tsvangirai is surprised that he is being targeted for investigation when
he was a victim of political violence. All his meetings are attended, as per
legal requirements under POSA, by police and secret service officers. There were
five of them at the Mvurwi meeting.

Mr Tsvangirai says police seem to be targetting him in order to frustrate
his political work. Today (saturday) police cancelled a meeting he was supposed
to have in Bikita, south of Harare. On Tuesday, police cancelled a meeting he
was supposed to address in Hwedza, also south of Harare.

Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 5:40 PMSubject: Reap where they did not
sow

Dear Family and Friends,One day this week winter came to an
end and Zimbabwe was suddenly blessedwith glorious warm sunshine,
lengthening days and an absolute explosion ofbird life. In just a week it
has become warm enough to take jerseys andjackets off, work outside in the
garden and sit out in the early evenings.It is incredibly comforting to know
that the routine of nature and theseasons is one of the very few things that
cannot be destroyed inZimbabwe's years of crisis. This summer, as it has for
the past fourseasons, a kind of desperate urgency has re-appeared within our
governmentto do something about the complete chaos that continues to be the
order ofthe day on Zimbabwe's farms.

The issue under the spotlight at
the moment is the government Ministersand high ranking officials who have
got, taken or been given more than onefarm. For four years President Mugabe
has been using the slogan "onefarmer one farm" and kept promising to sort
out the mess that had arisenfrom the blatant lawlessness of land invasions.
Recently appointed to theposition of Minister of Land Reform and
Resettlement, John Nkomo has beguntrying to sort out the chaos. Ministers
who have claimed or been allocatedmore than one farm since 2000 have started
receiving "withdrawal letters"advising them that the land was being taken
back by Nkomo's Ministry.According to the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper
some of the Ministers with"extra land holdings" are: Information Minister
Jonathan Moyo; LocalGovernment Minister Chombo; Agriculture Minister Made;
Justice MinisterChinamasa and Transport Minister Mushowe. One of the
Ministers concernedsaid the withdrawal letters were "preposterous and
annoying." He said ofthe multiple farms credited to him, one had been
reallocated to his cousinand another to his mother.

So far Minister
Nkomo is standing firm and has said he won't be"intimidated, perturbed or
frustrated by those causing all thishullabaloo." Responding to a tirade
against him in the state owned Heraldnewspaper, Minister Nkomo said the
angry outpourings by those "defendingthe indefensible would not scare him or
frustrate his efforts to retrievethe farms."

Also now attempting to
add legitimacy to the chaos surrounding Zimbabwe'sfarms is the Governor of
the Reserve Bank Gideon Gono. Referring to therecent seizures of highly
productive horticultural and export processingzone farms, Gono said: "We now
have a new set of farmers who want to reapwhere they did not sow." Gono
called them "fly by harvest time farmers"who pitch up on a property just
when a crop is ready to harvest anddeclare the harvest, land, house and farm
equipment as their own.

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NOTE THIS LIST IS CALLED LOT 1 AND IS NOT A DUPLICATE OF THE LOT 1FROM THE
23RD JULY
2004

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NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR CONFIRMATION OF SECTION 8 ORDER IN TERMS OFSECTION 7 (3) OF
THE LAND ACQUISITION ACT CHAPTER 20:10

TAKE NOTICE that an application
for the confirmation of the acquisitionorder issued in respect of the
following farms has been filed in theAdministraive Court at Harare and that
the Respondent and any holder ofreal rights over the said farm are required
to lodge their objectionswithin 5 days after the publication of this notice
failure to which thematter shall be set down unopposed without any further
notice.

A copy of the application is available for collection at
Applicant'sundersigned legal practitioner of record's address between Monday
to Fridayfrom 8am to 4pm.

J L NKOMOMinister of Special Afdfairs
in the Officeof the President and Cabinet in Charge of Lands,Land Reform
and Resettlement.